Real-Time Feeds Coming to a Web Site Near You, Courtesy of Google

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Google's Feed API lets Web site owners easily pop different types of data onto one page, by simply adding a few lines of JavaScript code. It's pretty great, really; you can add a Twitter feed, blog, news updates, or all kinds of other feeds to a Web page really easily. It currently works like the rest of the Internet is indexed: Google (or whoever) essentially looks to see if the feed in question has any updates, then makes that change on their side. Once that's done, the next time a visitor...